Winterr's words

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Christmas day

I hope everyone had a great time on Christmas day. I'm still recovering from the food and late night we had on Christmas eve after the mass.The mass was beautiful, I always get a tear in my eye while singing the carols at the beginning, seeing the manger scene near the altar with the baby Jesus, and then looking up to the top of the altar at the grown man dying on the cross.My mother was up at 6am cooking and my daughter was up at 6.30am opening presents, I could hear paper being torn, while I was in bed. Then more paper being torn by my cousin who was sleeping on the couch (my 2 cousins were locked out of their home accidentally so they slept over). My sister came over wanting to open her gifts from her boyfriend, she was diving into them, she is really loud too. So up I got by 7.15am.The food!! There was so much food!! Everyone ate! Then some fell asleep, woke up and it was time to eat again.It was not a hot Christmas this year, yay!! It was a windy and cool one so maybe I'll be better prepared for my next Christmas in Ohio.It was a fantastic day, I loved every moment of it, even if some of the family fell asleep after lunch.I definitely missed Jonathan more than ever, but we'll be together in a couple of months and can prepare for Easter. I have to be in ohio by at "least" the end of february 07, so it's all coming up so very soon, after a long wait of course.I've posted a picture of the left over cookies for all my readers, take one! But don't take the one with the fly sitting on it, unless you have a pet frog. I didn't know there was a fly there til after I took the photo, maybe it was wanting some Christmas festive food too.

Below is a photo of the manger scene that my parish had, it is bigger than it looks.

The Mass sounds beautiful! The most special moments of Christmas to me are the spiritual celebrations!Yummy, I want a cookie (but not the one with the fly on it--lol!). I'll take one with chocolate, please?So glad you had a wonderful Christmas!

How can U sleep thru anyone opening Christmas gifts? I didn't even get 2 sleep Christmas Eve. After wrapping and putting all the gifts under the tree, filling stockings-- Augh! It never ends! ... I decided to make an apple cobbler, but before I was done cleaning up after myself---my kids were on their way down the stairs! It was 4:30 a.m.!!! The must be crazy! They wanted to wake everyone up and open gifts----I made them watch a movie first, so it was atleast 6 a.m. when they opened gifts! Now, I feel as though I could sleep a whole week!

I'm glad you had a nice Christmas Carmel! I was also woken up before 8 a.m. because my little sister came charging in my room, yelling, "I CAN'T WAIT ANYMORE!!! LET'S OPEN THE PRESENTS!!!" What a shock to wake up to! And the gym will definitely get some visits soon! ; )